Women who suffer stress during pregnancy increase the chance of their child being gay, according to a controversial new book.

The lifestyle of pregnant mothers affects the sexuality of their unborn child, altering their hormones and the formation of their brains, it claims.

Smoking or taking drugs can also result in a child who grows up to be gay, according to the book by Dutch neuroscientist Dick Swaab, which is yet another chapter in the debate about the origins and causes of homosexuality.

Professor Swaab believes that a childs sexuality is determined in the womb and cannot be altered, while others argue that it is affected by upbringing or selected as a lifestyle choice.

In his book, We Are Our Brains, he writes: Although its frequently assumed that development after birth also importantly affects our sexual orientation, theres no proof of this whatsoever.

Well they say stress is bad for you, but in this case I think it may be due to the types of women who’s lives tend to live more stressful lives also have stressful pregnancy and poor conditions for the proper development of a child.

And who would probably get blamed for causing that stress? Why (men) dads of course. It’s a given.

While we’re on the subject of buns in the oven...

What do you call the test tube, for test tube babies? A womb with a view...

If this stress thing gets accepted, it will be interesting to know that stress before birth cause one to be a homosexual, but the stress caused by homosexuals after birth causes the rest of us to be much more strident in our heterosexuality.

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posted on 01/19/2014 10:08:14 PM PST
by DoughtyOne
(ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)

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